Job Description
Company Description
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design
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Where and how you can work
Our flagship campus is in Sydney, with a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces across ANZ. But you have choice in where and how you work — we trust our Canvanauts to find the balance that helps them and their teams do their best work.
Job Description
What you’d be doing in this role
As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA — and we like to think that’s part of the fun. This role sits within Infrastructure → Observability, where we build the platforms that give engineers deep, reliable insight into how Canva behaves in production.
At the moment, this role is focused on:
Owning and leading a high-performing engineering team, with a strong focus on career development, wellbeing, and impact
Partnering with Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers to define and execute Canva’s longer-term observability strategy
Translating high-level goals into clear roadmaps, priorities, and delivery plans
Owning the reliability, availability, and performance of Canva’s critical observability platforms, including tracing and exception systems
Driving modernisation of the observability stack, including deeper OpenTelemetry adoption and platform improvements
Ensuring observability capabilities translate into intuitive, effective developer experiences across workflows, visualisations, and tooling
You’re probably a match if
You’ve held a technical leadership role, including people leadership or team management experience
You’ve built, operated, or supported large-scale distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS ideally)
You have strong foundations in computer engineering and systems thinking
You care deeply about reliability, scalability, and developer experience
You communicate clearly and can align teams through thoughtful documentation and discussion
Nice to have (but not essential):
Experience with OpenTelemetry
Experience working with observability tooling such as Grafana, Mimir, ClickHouse, or similar
Experience coding in Go
About the team
The Observability Group enables Canva’s engineers to move fast without compromising reliability. We work across the full observability stack — from telemetry libraries and ingestion pipelines to storage platforms and developer-facing tools — combining best-in-class third-party solutions with in-house platforms built at Canva scale.
What’s in it for you?
Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard — and you’ll find plenty of moments of magic, connection, and fun along the way. We also offer a range of benefits to support you inside and outside of work, including:
Equity packages — we want our success to be yours too
Inclusive parental leave for all parents and carers
An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance for wellbeing, connection, and workspace needs
Flexible leave options to recharge, give back, or focus on what matters most
Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.
Other stuff to know
We make hiring decisions based on experience, skills, and passion — and how you’ll help Canva and our culture thrive. We celebrate all kinds of backgrounds, so even if you don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you. Interviews are conducted virtually.
